Redis is fast. Rails is good. Resque is cheap. It's a match made in heaven. Learn how to use Resque with Rails, how GitHub processes background jobs, and why Redis makes it blissful. We'll compare Resque to other solutions, discuss design patterns, and review the plugins that add infrastructure.

Every Rubyist knows Python sucks. It doesn't have blocks, whitespace matters, and Django is just a cheap Rails knock off.
But you can't argue with the language's popularity. Maybe there's something to it?
This talk is about Python and what we, as Rubyists, can learn from it. (Hint: a lot)

We plan to solicit questions in advance from the Rails community about anything. Our code, our scaling issues, our business model, how we implement features, how we see community, our plans for the future.
This panel will focus on GitHub the website and business, not Git the technology. We’…